Blanket-holder



(No Model.) I I J. B. WHITBEOK.

BLANKET HOLDER. No. 439,988. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. VVHITBEOK, OF COXSACKIE, NEV YORK.

BLANKET-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,988, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed February 28, 1890. Serial No. 342,106. CNo model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. WHITBECK, of Coxsackie,in the county of Greene and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Blanket-Holder and Yoke, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in blanket-holders, and more especially to holders for horse-blankets, although it may be applied to any animal-blanket; and the object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device that may be easily applied to a blanket, that may be easily and quickly adjusted and fastened upon an animal, that will hold the blanketin such a manner that it will not be turned under the animals feet, and that will be attached to the blanket in such a manner that there will be but little strain atany one point, thereby enabling the blanket to wear longer than when fastened in any of the usual ways.

To this end my invention consists in a yoke formed in two pieces adapted to fit the animals neck, said pieces being connected at the top by a strap, cord, or any suitable attachment, and having their lower ends provided with hooks or catches by which they may be fastened together. This construction will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formin ga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a view of a blanket provided with the holder and applied to a horse; Fig. 2, a broken perspective view of a blanket provided with the holding attachment; Fig. 3, a detail view of the device detached from a blanket, and Fig. 4 a broken plan view of a blanket having the device attached thereto.

The blanket-holder and yoke consists of two similar side pieces A, which are preferably made of metal,but may be made of any suitable material. Each of the side pieces has an eye a at the upper end, said eyes being connected by the link 17, which, as shown, is of metal; but it may be of any suitable material, or a cord, strap, or similar article may be substituted. At the lower end one of the side pieces is formed into an eye d and the other into a corresponding hook cl, which m ay' be made to engage the eye and so attach the parts. the particular form of catch for fastening the side pieces, as any suitable catch may be formed thereon or attached thereto.

The device maybe attached to the blanket B in any of the following ways: As shown in Fig. 2, it is stitched into the neck of the blanket, so that all but the hook d and eyed will be inclosed by the cloth of the blanket. As shown in Fig. 4, the eyes a are not formed on the side pieces A until after they are thrust through the cloth of the blanket. When attached in this manner, they are forced in and out through the blanket-cloth and around the neck of the blanket, and the eyes a are then formed thereon and the link I) attached.

Instead of attaching in either of the above ways, the side pieces may be sewed to the outside of the blanket around the neck of the same In either case the link 12 will allow the device to be bent without breaking, and when the blanket is placed upon a horse and the lower ends fastened together the blanket will be held firmly in position.

The side pieces A are curved to fit nicely upon the animals neck, and are fastened together at the bottom by simply hooking the hook d into the eye d.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with an animal-blanket, of a holder or yoke formed of flexible wire to fit the neck of the blanket, said holder consistingot' two side pieces having their upper ends formed into eyes and pivotally connected together and having their lower ends pointed to pierce the blanket and adapted to be bent into hooks and eyes, substantially as described.

2. A blanket-holder or yoke having curved side pieces A, formed with terminal eyes a. at their upper ends, said eyes being suitably connected, as shown, and with the hook d and eye d at their lower ends by which they may be connected, substantially as described.

JOHN B. l VHITBECK,

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